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Community which saved Acle pub is branching out to open village shop

January 19, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

The White Horse at Upton, near Acle, has won a £4,000 grant from a new community service support scheme organised by Pub is the Hub, which is in turn backed with £30,000 from Norfolk County Council. The cash will be used to convert an old barn next to the pub into a community shop, cementing the White Horse’s reputation for being the beating heart of the Broads village. It is not the only community-run pub in Norfolk. Read more at EDP24, 16 December 2014

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Filed Under: Neighbourhood News Tagged With: community pub, community shop, community-led, parish council

Neighbourhoods and D.I.Y. local democracy

September 2, 2012 by ben Leave a Comment

We’re holding an open space workshop on Tuesday 16 October at the Park Lane Centre, Bradford (the home of Bradford Trident)

We want to know whether localism is increasing freedom not just over what decisions can be taken by communities, but how those decisions are actually taken? We want to test the idea that an era of ‘do it yourself democracy’ is approaching, and whether it is starting (it would make sense if it were) at the neighbourhood level?

How would it be if every neighbourhood in your town had a different model of local democracy and if some parts of the town had designed their own democracy? Would it matter if in the street where you live a traditional neighbourhood council looks after the local park, and cuts the grass, while a mile away residents have voted-in powers for their neighbourhood council to collect £30 a year to do all kinds of other things like keeping the local library open?  What if in another part of your town a group of local volunteers had formed a group which now takes decisions over grittier-sounding issues like getting unemployed households into work, or reducing deaths from heart disease?  And what if another neighbourhood group seemed to be making more practical difference than everyone else put together, having started a food-growing business using £1 million they had been given to invest?

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